Counsel, WeWork
Employment Legal
Shared workspace community & office services
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Shared workspace community & office services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create environments where people and companies come together and do their best work.
Role
Who you are
- German qualified Lawyer, or UK qualified lawyer with significant experience advising on German employment law issues
- Minimum 5 years of experience focused on employment law (in-house experience in a global organisation is a plus)
- Proven expertise in major EMEA market employment law and litigation
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the desire and ability to build close partnerships with business and legal stakeholders
- Ability to organize, prioritize and manage deadlines, workflow, and team execution in a fast-paced work environment
- Ability to translate legal requirements into understandable risk-based recommendations for the business and legal functions
- Experience advising on works council matters is required
- Life at WeWork
What the job involves
- WeWork is seeking an employment lawyer to join its dedicated employment law team within its Legal Department as a Counsel
- This position will sit in Berlin and will initially report to the Senior Counsel, Employment Law, EMEA
- Advise HR and business leaders on employment matters throughout EMEA (with special emphasis on Germany, France, and UK), including hiring/recruitment, promotions, performance and absenteeism management, leaves of absence, discrimination, harassment, retaliation, disciplinary actions, redundancies or other restructurings, terminations, post-termination disputes, mergers and acquisitions (including diligence and workforce integration/deintegration), pay equity, and worker classifications
- Liaise with and advise on legal issues involving works councils, especially in Germany and France
- Oversee and partner with outside counsel on employment litigation and, as needed, advice and counsel matters
- Review and update HR policies and trainings
- Create and present occasional trainings on employment law matters to educate HR and business leaders
- Oversee internal employment investigations involving alleged violations of law
- Monitor and draft submissions to regulatory agencies that involve employment-related reporting obligations
- Review compensation plans, including sales compensation plans and governance policies
Our take
WeWork is a commercial real estate company that pioneered the shared workspace market, providing spaces for anyone from freelancers to Fortune 500s. Traditional leases typically require businesses to commit to an office for 5-10 years, whilst WeWork allows its members to scale up from a single hot desk to a private office or custom-built suite, depending on their needs.
WeWork has hundreds of locations across the globe, with hundreds of thousands of members. While its initial rapid growth and dominance in key global hubs was impressive, it has since had to scale back and strategically re-align itself in an unstable economic climate.
There is certainly still potential for WeWork to see renewed growth and success, especially as remote and hybrid working continues to be popular. That said, observers will have to wait to see the eventual affect of its restructuring - and only time will tell what the company's future looks like.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 15 rounds)
Jan 2019
$1bn
SERIES H
Nov 2018
$3bn
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $12.4bn
Company benefits
- Health and dental insurance
- Free breakfast everyday
- Flexible working hours
- Work from home opportunities
Company values
- Do The Right Thing - We know the “right thing” is a deliberate action we must always take
- Strive To Be Better, Together - We’ve always believed that we are better together
- Be Entrepreneurial - To reshape the way the world works, we must be bold, act with courage, and demonstrate resiliency
- Give Gratitude - We will not take anyone or anything for granted
- Be Human, Be Kind - Collaboration, kindness, and authenticity are essential to our humanity
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Articles
Leadership
David Tolley
(CEO, not founder)Also Co-Chief Restructuring Officer and CFO at Intelsat. Previously worked at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners as a Senior Advisor.
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